224.16-060 Cabinet as agency for securing benefits of federal acts.
The cabinet is hereby designated as the water pollution agency for this state and for any <br>city, county, or district, or authority within this state for all purposes of the Water <br>Pollution Control Act (Public Law 80-845 approved June 30, 1948), as amended, as air <br>pollution agency for this state for all purposes of the Federal Air Quality Act (Public Law <br>90-148, approved November 21, 1948), as amended, and as solid waste agency for this <br>state for all purposes of the Federal Solid Waste Disposal Act (Public Law 89-272, <br>approved October 20, 1965), as amended, and as management agency for solid waste and <br>hazardous waste for purposes of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as <br>amended, (PL 94-580), and as the surface mining agency for this state for all purposes of <br>the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (Public Law 95-87, approved <br>August 3, 1977), as amended. The cabinet may take all action necessary or appropriate to <br>secure to this state and all cities, counties, districts, and authorities within this state the <br>benefits of such federal acts.
Effective: July 13, 1984 <br>History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 183, effective July 13, 1984. --
Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 4, effective June 17, 1978; and ch. 330, <br>sec. 25, effective May 3, 1978 . -- Created 1972 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 3, <br>sec. 8, effective January 1, 1973.
Formerly codified as KRS 224.037.
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